Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - It appears contract talks at Canada Post have stalled as a strike mandate for more than 51,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is set to expire. The postal agency’s bigg...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is urging patience as her government grapples with a budget deficit projected to hit almost $11 billion this year While the situation is bad, it would have bee...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - A police spokesman in the Dominican Republic says an elderly Canadian man has been killed at his home in a resort town along the Caribbean coast. Spokesman Nelson R...

VANCOUVER - The Canadian Medical Association says 72 per cent of doctors who responded to a survey it conducted want the federal government to regulate THC levels in recreational marijuana. A total of...

OTTAWA - The son of a Canadian man jailed in China on espionage charges is hoping Justin Trudeau’s upcoming visit to the east Asian country will help his father’s case - but Simeon Garratt...

FREDERICTON - Nova Scotia farmer Danny Dill is hoping for lots of rain in the coming weeks - or his giant pumpkins, used to float contestants in Windsor’s annual pumpkin regatta, may end up on t...

Quebec’s health minister apologized profusely Wednesday after suggesting earlier in the day that election-night shooter Richard Henry Bain acted partly out of frustration with the political rhet...

A police report says a man who died from a drug overdose in a Cape Breton jail told a prison nurse he had taken five “nerve pill(s)” and appeared intoxicated, raising questions for an addi...

MONTREAL - Four years after being seriously wounded by the same bullet that killed his friend outside the Metropolis nightclub in 2012, Dave Courage says justice has finally been done. “Everyone...

OTTAWA - The political pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to outline specific measures to control spending among his cabinet ministers, now that two of them find their own practices...